This observation is irrelevant unless you meant that choice of
language has absolutely no bearing on the likelyhood that your code
ends up readable, which I find hard to swallow.


On Sep 18, 9:58 am, Steel City Phantom <[email protected]> wrote:
> >gs/write/read/p
> >Reading code is far, far more important than writing it.
> >Perhaps we should redefine the acronym WORA to be "write once, read
> >anytime" and use it as a mantra for source code development?  (Except
> >that Sun, now Oracle, probably has a copyright, trademark or patent on
> >WORA.)
>
> wow, you really think its the languages fault you can't read old code?  one
> of the best coders i have ever met was a perl guy.  perl is notorious for
> being hard to read but you opened one of his scripts and it read like a
> really good spy novel.  its not the language that makes code hard to read,
> its the moron that wrote it.

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